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MAILS. ARRIVID—T Flushing, t Dublin, 2 Waterford. Duz —3 Gottenburgh, ! Lisbon, t Cadiz, i Waterford. l'ltt('E OF ST() S THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'L,LOCK. Consols ----- - - 6E j e j THE SU N. &OLEN QU;S UICERE FALSUM AUDEA.T ? LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1809. Mr. PERcEvAt. kissed hands yesterday, on being appointed First Lord of the Treasury. The disposi tion of the other vacant offices tiot being as yet com pletely arranged, no other presentation took place. Mr. DUNDAS is expelled to return irom Ireland he tote toeXt Levee. Mr. PERCFNAL is now to be considered as the Minister or the Country ; he has obtained the sitna- lion, neither by overheating pretensions, or under hand hitt igues, but has been called to it by the una nimous opinion of those who best knew hirfl. It is in Pirli.►tnent, perhaps, that his talents are most justly appreciated; the weight which he has in the Howe of Commons is public and acknowledged. But it is i❑ the Cabinet, and in his capacity as a Councillor, that the disinterested openness of his character has been most eminently distinguish ed. The entire purity of his views and ac tiows, in a season of discordance and intrigue, have united with his atitivity, acuteness, and accu racy, in painting him out as the fittest person to lead the Councils of the King. Whether the situa tion of Prime Minister be at ►his moment an objea of just envy may very well be doubted; but no man cet tainly ever attained the post under circumstances more flattering to himself, and to which he could, upon his death-bed, look back with less regret than those which have produced the eleetion of Mr. PER.. CEVA L. We are led to these refle&ions, not by any un worthy desire of flattering the Minister of the day, but by the base insinuations of a contemporary, that Mr. PEIWEVAL'S appointment is the result of inordi nate ambition ! Insinuations utterly inconsistent, not only with truth, but with the knowledge of facts possessed by the writer. We have carefully ab stained, (and we shall persist in our forbearance) from discussing the merits of the late unfortunate dissensions in the Cabinet : we have left the ex clusive friends of Lord CASTLEREAGH and of Mr. CANNING (for we admire them both) to state their ovn cases but we should not have done this, if tither of the pailies had ventured to assert what we knew to be untrue, in regard to a third party. We wDuld not have tamely acquksced in the statement, that it was otherwise than contrary to the earnest w,AI ct Mr. I'EItCEVAL that the question of pre e eqce was ever mooted between Mr. CANNING an himself. But what was Mr. PERCEVAL'S condtl6l, when a Concurrence of circumstances had brought the ques tion to that issue, 'and when the decision of it had placed within his reach the supposed object of his Inordinate amtition ? Did he eagerly and confident ly grasp it ?—No ! ire voluntarily offered to share it li.ose, whose pettish refusal alone left it in his ha • . suppose that we shall again told, in de fi f notorious facts, that Mr. PERCEVAL mere ly called upon Lords GREY and GRENVILLE 10 up hold him in his ill-gotten power ! As often as this assertion is made, so often will we flatly contradi& it ; 'but it is utterly irreconcileable with the new dis-' covery of Mr. PERCEVAL'S " inordinate ambition' , for the post of First Minister, unless, indeed, we should believe that Afr. PERCLVAL intended to offer to ,Lo'rd GREY and Lord GRENVILLE to accept office under hill), be being acknowledged as Prime Mini ster. Grossly and artfully as the offer has been mis represented, we do not apprehend that it is even pre tended to believe this. 14 one sense, indeed, it is to " inordinate am. bition" that Mr. PERC!?.VAL owes hiselevation; he owes it, truly, to the ambition. of others, who now attempt to charge him with the failing, to which they themselves must attribute their own disappoint ment and discomfiture! existence. We consider the circumstances under which Mr. PERCEVAL'S Administration is formed, as not more calculated to gratify his own feelingS,, than to obtain for it the support and confidence of:.the Country. The unity of sentiment and principle, which has been so loudly called for, is not only found in the new Cabinet, but has aatually been the cause of its We confidently trust that it will also be the means of its preservation, and the best security fur the wisdom of its measures. ' • 'We this day received Dutch Papers down to the ist ins z. We have extra&ed the chief .part of their con tents. TheErench statement or d 1 in Bo hemia is probably mere i . nvention to discourage people from locking with hope to the future efforts ofAustria. The article trout Sa - asbagh states, that the Araii- stice which was to expire on the 20th nit, had been prolonged for one month, and that in case of a rupture of the negotiations, hostilities are not to he renewed till after six weeks notice. This arrangement con hrtut other proofs that BUONAPARTE is not permitted to di&ate with a high hand, after he had vauntingly said that the Austrian armies were annihilated, and justifies a hope that the Emperor FRANCIS is animat ed by a consciousness of the strength he possesses, as well as of the justice of his cause. Lord MELVILLE, it is said, has been sent for, and is soon expeEted in town. • Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY came to town from Windsor, and was received at the Queen's Palace, by the Dukes of KENT and CUMBERLAND. Soon after two.o'clock his MAJESTY held a pri vate Levee, wl•iclh was attended by The Lord Chauc slur ; the Lord - ut the Treasury and Chancellor of Lie Lxcliequer ; the Lord President of the Council ; the Lord Privy Seal ; the Secretary ot State for the Dep.irtnient ; the Ma,rer-General ot the Ordnance; the F irst Lola ut the tAdnuralty ; the President of the Board et "Trade; the President 01 the Board of Coot roul ; the Com mander to Cinch ; the I udge Advocate the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Bishop of Bangor; ; I , :arls Dalhousie and Coventry ; Lords Arden (in waiting), Heatlitield (gold stick), and Decriturst ; Generals Sir luhn Cradock and Stewart ; Colonels Torrens and Nichols; Major Montalembert ; Cap. fain beaver, Royal Navy ; Mr. West (greens in waiting). The following had the honour of being presented to MAjesty : Mr. Perceval, upo.l his being appointed First Lord of his Majesty's Treasury, in the room of the Duke of Portland, resigned. Major-General the Earl of Dalhousie, upon his being ap. pointed to tile command of the 6th Garrison Battalion. Lieutenant-General Sir lolin Cradock, upon his return from Gibraltar. . . The Earl of Coventry, upon coming to his title, by Viscount Deerhurst. . • _ . Lieutenant-Colonel Torrens, upon his being appointed Military Secrztary to the Commancier in Chief, by Sir David Dundas, the Commander in Chief. The Ilion. Major-General Stewart, upon his return tram Zealand, and upon his being appointed to the Coloneley of the 3,1 Eattalion at the 95th Regiment. Major Nlontaiernbert, Pet inaneiit Assistant Quarter-Mas ter-6eneral, upon his return train iOreign service. Captain Beaver, R. N. upon his return train the West Indies. _ Lieutenant-Colonel Nichols, of the 14th ReAinient of Foot, upon his return from Walcheren. Dr. MAJENDIE did homage before his MAJEsTy,_ upon his being translated from the Bishopric of Chester to the Bishopric of Bangor. His MAJESTY gave audiences to the LORD CHAN CELLOR, Earls WESTMORLAND, LIVEttFOOL, CAM DEN, CHA.TLIAM, and HARROWBY ; Lords Mtn- GRAVE and HEATHFIELD ; Sir DAv:D DUNDAS ; Messrs. PERCEVAL and RYDER, who laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts-Martial. His MAJESTY did not hold aPI ivy Council. Soon after six o'clock his MAJEs - :Ye set off on his return to Windsor. A Gentleman arrived in town, yesterday morning, who left Flushing on Sunday last. He states that all the French troops had lett that place for the Danube ; that on the day he left Eushing he spoke with a gentleman who hadlust arrived from Rotter dam, who informed him that a report was very cur rent of a great battle having been fought on the Danube ; that the Tyrohaus had obtained a new and splendid victory over the French, who had pene trated into the heart of the country, and who were almost entirely cut to pieces. The sickness among our troops at Flushing, he adds, had almost totally subsided. Extratl of a private letter from Ensiling, dated 29th Sept.-- It is quite plain that the French think us in a complete state of difficulty; for it is a well known fad, that in Antwerp and its neigh bourhood, scarcely a single soldier is to be tound. I do not vouch for the truth of the statement ; but I have heard it said here that South Beveland has been abandoned by the French; but whether they are one to Spain, or to the Emperor on the Danube, we cannot know. I have myself been ill of the fever, which has prevailed so much that I was un able to write to you, but I am much recovered, as well as most of the troops. The disease is said to have been caused by the soldiers, after undergoing fatigue, drinking large draughts of stagnated water. Those who were first taken ill used to drink the gin which was provided for them separately, but those who mixed it with water escaped the disease. The water is said to be very pleasant and very healthy here; but I do not anticipate much pleasure from it. We do not hear much from the opposite coast of Holland. We have had it reported, that a battle has been fought on the Danube ; but we do not know how to believe it. I wish it may be so. J.ing Louts is at the Palace at the Hague. The for tifications at Flushing go on well. The works are grand. The sick Officers brought to Harwich by the Lord Duncan Packet, Captain ,HAMILTON, from Flushing, are upwards of 30, among whom are the Inspector-General of Hospitals, Mr. WEBB ; the Rev. Mr. HORMSBY, Senior Chaplain to the Army ; Assistant-Commissary-General RUGLAND ; Assis tant Quarter-Master-General PIERREPONT, and se veral other" Staff and Regimental Officers, some of then - `so very ill that they were landed with great difficulty. Transports, with 2000 sick, left the Island on Sunday last, for the Downs. The remainder of the second battalion of the 3d, or Old Buffs, marched from Plymouth on, Monday for Berryhead Barracks, Torbay. . The 250 of the same Corps, who sailed in a transport from Plymouth on the preceding even ing, under convoy of the Orestes; sailed dire& for Portugal, and not for Plymouth, as stated yesterday by mistake. Dr. BLANE of the Navy, and DoCtors BORLAND and DEMPRIERE of the army, are ordered to th..l Island of Walcheren, to form an opinion ,jointly with Dr. M‘GREGOR, as to the expediency of keL p ing Our troops in that unhealthy conquest. Parliament is not expected to meet until after Christmas. The finances of the country are in a very flourishing state. The Customs, it is as.,erted, have produced within the present year, upw,-irds of a million more than they did it] the corresponding period of the las,t year. The Stamp duties also have been produaive in an equal proportion ; while, front the improvement in the collection of the Pi operty Tax, that great source of revenue is becoine,more abundaa. and less oppressiveihan heretofore . . • FROM THE DUMH PAPERS. BRUGES, SEPT. e .-- Hospitals for the use of our ar m ies have lately been established in this place, Ypres and Courtray. They are committed to the management of the diredors of charitable purposes in those places, who have deservedly obtained by their humane and zealous conduEt the confidence of Government and the country at large. ANTWERP, SEPT. 22.—Generals BERNUE and HUTOR arrived here yesterday; they are all to be employed in our armies. MUNICH, SEPT. 16.—The head-quarters of the Marshal Duke of Dantzic still continue in Salz burgh, and the position of his troops is not yet al tered. On the 12th inst. he reviewed all the troops stationed here and in the environs of this place. We learn from Venice that all the seamen of the Russian flotilla, which has been dismantled there, have been sent to Trieste. NUREMBURGH, SEPT. 16.—Letters • from Bohe mia state, that the utmost discontent prevails among the inhabitants of that Kingdom, because the Land wehr, or militia, are to wear in future the same uni form as the Austrian troops of the line, and that their number is to be increased by a Landsiztrm , or levy en masse. All the magazines found in the dif ferent towns of Southern Bohemia are to. be re moved to Prague. The corps of the ci.devant Elec tors of Hesse Cassel still occupy the circle of Vilat tan. The Archduke FERDINAND still continues in Prague, and reviews the different troops of the line and militia which successively arrive iii that place. STUTGARDT, SEPT. 20.—Several public papers state, in a positive tone, that, according to intelli gence received from the armies of the 12th instant, the Armistice has been prolonged for one month ; but letters from Vienna of the 15th instant make no mention of it. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 2 .---T h e Swedish embassy which arri‘ed here some days back left this place for Paris in the course of this morning.—(Royal Am sterdam Gazette of Sept. 30.) NAPLES, SEPT. 13 . —Two Sicilian ships belong ing to a convoy from Palermo were lately compelled, by contrary winds, to put into the Island of Ischia, where they were captured. VIENNA, Seer. 19.—His Imperial Majesty, who on the 15th ins - t. set out (or Bruno, arrived this after noon in Schoenbrunn, on his return from that place. On his journey, he reviewed the troops who' com pose the corps commanded by the Marshal Duke of AUERSTADT. • At the sante time when the Emperor left Schoenbtunn,Count Bunts A,Aid-de-Camp of the Emperor of Austria, set out on his return to Buda, where his master is at present. He was charged with a letter from the Emperor NAPOLEON to his Austrian Majesty. The Duke of Fatout., Grand Marshal of the Palace, presented Count • BUHNA, before his departure, with a precious stone of great value, on the pat of his Imperial Majesty, from which circumstance, and some observations said to !lave been made by Count BUFINA, it is ge-. nernicy inferred that the negociations are drawing Ilt€ to a conclusion. Mr. BALDAVEI still holds the place of arector of the Austrian Cabinet, although it has been positively asserted, that he was removed from that station. Several French troops, and among them numerous detachments of horse, have passed through this place, on their march to Bavaria and Austria, with large transports of ammunition from Strasburgh.— On the ai her hand, several hundred lieutenants, ser jeauts and corporals, have been seat from Vienna to Strashurgh, apparently destined to form new corps. The line of telegraphs which is to extend from St f as burgh to Vienna, passing through Ulm, Munich and this town, is nearly completed. PARIS, SEPT. 26.—Count BOUDET, General of Division, an Officer of great merit, died lately in Budweis. According to letters from Vienna of the gth inst. his Imperial Majesty arrived that day at Schoenbrunn, after having passed 36 hours in Brunn, chiefly ployed in reviewing the troops stationed in that gum-- ter. It is said that part of the French troops,- who about the end of last month marched to the' banks of the Aborava and Raab, have received orders to re turn to the position they occupied at the conclusion of the first armistice. The Austrian troops are also said to have ueen ordered to march hack to - the North ot. Hungary from the Banks of the Danube. The two armies of Antwerp and Flanders have formed a junction, under the name of the Army of the North. Letters. from Strasburgh, of the 22d inst. state, that the armistice, which expired. on the 20th of this month, has been prolonged for one month, with additional stipulations, that hostilities are not to be recommenced till six weeks after notice shall have been given of the armistice being at an end, they cannoi, therefore, be resumed before the s th of No- vember. BAYONNE, SPPT. g.—A battalion of Poles, a nu merous field train, and several detachments of troops, have lately . rbrched through this town Qn their way ta'S'pain. According to the last letters from Madrid, the po sitions of the French armies which cover the capital were as follows :—The Ist corps, commanded by Marshal VICTOR,. was at Toledo; the Qd, under the orders ofMarshal SOULT, at Placentia ; the 4th, under the command of Gen. SEBASTIANI, at Aran juez, and the 6th, commanded by Marshal NET, in Salamanca. General SUCHET is said to have obtained fresh advantages over BLAKE'S army, which was advancing for the relief of Gerona. Being in• formed of this movement, General Souctier march ed to,neet the enemy, attacked him in the fine po- sition of San Domingo de Legna, dislodged him, and cleared the Valley of Brueal of the banditti who intercepted the communication by that Vale. FRANKFORT, SEPT. €4.—We lear❑ from Dresden, that the necessary measures have been taken there, to secure as much as possible that capital against any • hostile ,attack, in case the I,var with Austria should unexpeaedly recommence. The most valuable effects have been sent to K.onigstein, and several hundreds of labourers are daily employed in throw ing up entrenchments on the heights near the Bo hemian frontiers. On the 18th a considerable train of Saicon'artil lery passed through Erlangen, on its way tolioia the Saxon corps which is in Presburg. Preparations are making to prolong the line of telegraphs troth Strasburgh to. Paris, by Augsburg and Munich, to Vienna. The Swedish Embassy, which has been here for some time, set out to-day for Paris. It is said that it waited !Jere for directions from Vienna, whether it should proceed to that capital or Paris. The Russian Prince SOLINSKIG set out to-day for Strasburg, by Stuigard. Nothing new has been received from the Tyro lese Frontiers. From the Voralberg they write that all the troops that were in Hol►enema, Dorn birm, and Feldkirch, broke up, on the 141 b, for Plaudinz, so that an attack on the peasants neat Broz and Dales, might be expeded. LINTZ, SEPT. t 7—The last accounts from Vim enna bring nothing relative to the negociations for peace. According to some, a Russian Plenipoten tiary was expected to take an at:tive part in the nu gociation7, in order to regulate in fu!ure the rela tions between Russia, France, An , ,tria, and the States of the Confederation of the Rhine. Nothing, how ever, is publicly known concerning the progress of the negociations. We learn from Hungary, that the different Aus• trian corps, which were stationed between Kaschau and Neuhausel, have within these few days brl'" 11 up, and approached nearer to the Dinube. A strong column has even passed that river, in order, to extend itself along the Raab, and thus cover the fortress of Comorn. The corps of the ArCliduke PALATINE is the only one whch remains in its for mer position near Neuhausel. Accounts.from Klattau slate, that the troops in the service of the late Elector of HESSE are still in that Circle, and have extended t hemselves more souther ly, so that a division of them is in Stogun, adjoining to the . Circle of Prae hia and Budweis. AUSTRIA. FROM A FRENCH PAPER. - _ The resignation of the Archduke Charles, the evi dent result of discontent, is still attributed to . the state Of. his health. The Physicians, say the Ger man Papers, will not answer for - his life if he con . - tinues to take upon him the charge of the war. It is..diffiColt to believe in thitifew version ; and we see much more clearly the cause of bis resignation in the state of his army than in the state of his health. Has he not hit-melt - Minted at the mot ives of. his retreat in his Order of the Day ? Does he speak, of any thing else but his profound grief at the 'situa tion of affairs ? Be that as it may; the. Prince is now at Teschen. The Archduke John is burthened With the enormous task which the . GeneralisSirno thought above his, strength. He has concentrated his army at Prague, attempting to increase it by levies made in Bohemia by the most violent "Deans, such as tearing men from their homes. Soldiers, money, forage, labour, ail 'are exati,.d by tire-Au strian Government with excessive rigour. Bohe mia famished, ruined by the residence of her own defenders, affords the most deplorable spectacle ; the most sinistrous futurity presents itself ; the effects of the battle of Wagram have info , ed despair into every heart—misery and famine complete the pitture. Hungary has not replied to the frequent appeals of the Nobility ' a levy ordered in Transylvania can only be rffeeted in six Mont hs,—(Mercure de France.) . A circular order has been issued from the Adju taiit-Genetal's Office', to the General Officers com manding the districts, &c., notifying mew of Lieutenant-Colonel TORRENS to the station of Military Secretary to the Commander. Capta in MALING is appointed-Assistant Secretary to Colone l T oitHENS. the appoint. SulciDE.--A gentleman of the name of Holland, formerly . a Russian merchant, put a periOd to his existence on Tuesday, at his house in York-row, St. George. The unfortunate Gentleman, who was bear• ly 6o years of age, had for several weeks laboured under a depression of spirits, bordering on derange• went, arising from the loss of an only daughter, Who wa killed by a fall out of chaise a mouth ago. Tb deceased was found with his throat cut in his beck room .; he had effected his purpose with a rat -r. A Coroner's Jury brought in a verdict i